ALL software is a physical copy. It resides on some sort of physical media like paper, tapes, ROMs, EPROMs, HDD, Floppy, printed stuff, harddisk-in-a-server-500-miles-away, glass & metallic platters, optical pits and reflective areas, RAM, Flash, PROM fuses, Masked ROM diodes.. And more!
Words are just labels meant to group similar things and differentiate them from others. Words, by their very nature, are imprecise and malleable. Check out Zhuang Zi's essay " A horse is not a horse."
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